"Oh shit, I forgot to buy onions for dinner but I don't have time to go to the shops. Why don't I order it online?"
Fuck it, why not have this for everything? It still puzzles me why certain items can take several weeks to go from one part of the UK to another whilst other things can come less than 12 hours after you order.

don't have time in your busy schedule to expel your own rectal gas? Is 'work hard, play hard, FART HARD' simply not an option? Then outsourced flatulence solutions is the outsourced flatulence solution for YOU.

but managers said, yeah yeah that sort of thing exists.....and yet it never made an appearance into any of the (very big budget) projects......where is it, it would be a godsend, nay, a necessity for any company that is serious about offshoring in a proper (rather than slipshod) manner

so when someone is cooking and realises they are out of cinnamon or something rather than having to stop, drive to supermarket and then back they can put it into Supermarket Dash and it gets delivered in the next hour. Obviously would probably need to be location dependent.

"We've received your order"
3 days later "We're now packing your order"
another 5 days later "We've shipped your order and you should get it in the next few days"
2 days after that "Here's your order, only took a week and a half!!"

but if a company existed that delivered in hours that were convenient for the customers, and word spread about that company, then there would be pressure on businesses to use them as customers, if choosing whether to buy a product from one of two shops, would probably choose to buy a product from a business that used a delivery company that delivered at a convenient time, rather than one that didn't.

You could really push the convenient delivery times as a reason for people to shop with you.